Somali entry “The Gravedigger’s Wife” by finish-Somali writer and director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed won the prestigious Stallion of Jenenga Best Film Award at the Pan-African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on Sunday. bottom.
The bitter drama of a grave digger struggling to raise money for his wife’s surgery brought back the R528885 prize and gold stallion statue.
The film was the first official entry by Somalia into the Best International Feature Film category at the 2021 Academy Awards and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in July.
Ahmed, who wasn’t in Ouagadougou to collect prizes, previously said the film was inspired by an incident in his family.
Mauritanian film director Abdella Mansisako, who chaired the jury for 17 feature films at the convention, told Reuters that it was a brave film from a country that didn’t make many films. “So if you have a movie like this from there, you need to encourage it.”
“It’s a beautiful movie that tells the story of mankind. It’s also a love story,” said Sisako after a ceremony hosted by Senegalese President Macky Sall and Burkina Faso President Rock Marc Cabole.
Known as Fespaco, Ouagadougou’s Pan-African Film and Television Festival is the largest biannual conference on African cinema and attracts international and African cinema and television experts from the African continent and Diaspora to the capital of Burkina Faso. I am.
This 27th edition has been postponed for approximately eight months from October 16th to 23rd, 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and security challenges facing the country.
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